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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: fellow in the world. What if I am a commercial person?
What under the sun do you mean? A commercial person?
I will be any sort of a person you want. I never talked to you
about business. Let her go, and I will ask no questions.
I will take her away, and you shall never see me or hear
of me again. I will stay in America if you like.
I'll sign a paper promising never to come back to Europe!
All I want is not to lose her!"
Madame de Bellegarde and her son exchanged a glance of lucid irony,
and Urbain said, "My dear sir, what you propose is hardly an improvement.
We have not the slightest objection to seeing you, as an amiable foreigner,
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